Full Description
Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. This edited collection tackles the question of how to teach English language and culture through literature in case studies from practitioners all across Asia. Contributors thus balance the need for students to understand the interface between English cultures and their own with the pressure to prepare them for employment in this changing environment.
Contents
Part I: Language Politics across Asia
1."Exophony in the Midst of a Mother Tongue: Resources between Languages
Kazuhito Matsumoto
2. Unfinished English: Stories from the Other Other
Will P. Ortiz
3. Using Chopsticks to Read Knife 'n' Fork English: Teaching American Literature in Taiwan
E-chou Wu
Part II: Culture and Language Study in Taiwan
4. Teaching Early British Literature in Southern Taiwan
Elyssa Y. Cheng
5. Teaching English Language and Literature in the Asia-Pacific Region: Environmental and Ecocritical Contexts
Iris Ralph
6. Interacting with "Other" Places in Modern Poetry through Hypermedia
Emerald C. L. Ku and Patricia Haseltine
Part III: Drama and Ethos beyond Borders
7. Shakespeare's Cymbeline in the College English Classroom during the Sunflower Student Movement
I-Chun Wang
8. MOOC Global/Local Shakespeare: New Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare in Taiwan and Beyond
Yilin Chen
9. Modern Renaissance Education in Taiwan's Departments of Foreign Languages
Bernard Montoneri
